Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the world of education will watch with interest to see the results obtained at Chicago. Like other "Nature films" if the pictures can succeed in being true to nature, their value may be unquestioned. If not, they are likely to develop only one new means of bluff, the science of writing an examination bluebook not only to convince the instructor of a passing knowledge of the subject, but also of a serious intensity of purpose every minute to get this knowledge out. It is to be feared that the general effect of the films will be about...
...these two, after trying three times himself without success, was instrumental in putting Woodrow Wilson in the White House; the other hoped to succeed him and saw his hopes dashed temporarily at San Francisco in 1920. Both battle-scarred, as they are, already advance to renew the attack...
...length are not built in a day, but it seems more and more probable that they will sometime be as familiar as the Brooklyn Bridge is now. Although man may never realize Jules Verne's imaginative story of a "Journey to the Center of the Earth", he may succeed in the first stage of it. "Air" has been "conquered" recently, "Water" long ago, but it remains for the engineers of the future to complete the conquest of "Earth...
Although the management has in the past been particularly wise in its choice of lecturers, the undergraduates may be expected to welcome with much greater enthusiasm. Mr. Keaton and all those who are likely to succeed...
...seem extravagant praise. I have even been inclined to suggest that it would be well, in the training of naval officers in future, to combine a college education with a shorter intensive technical course at the Naval Academy. For these college men have what technical academies do not usually succeed in giving a general education and a general training, which develops the power of initiative, independent thought, an ability quickly to grasp intricate situations, and to master, in a short time, almost any practical problem. At least this proved to be the case with the subchasers...